Peter J. Richards
"Bible-Carrying Christians, Conservative Protestants, and Social Power" by David Harrington Watt
Watt's work, the product of more than two years of field research in three Philadelphia churches-a nondenominational congregation called Oak Grove Church, the Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship, and the Philadelphia Church of Christ-proposes to provide "an ethnographic analysis" of the Christians identified in his title. "Bible-carrying Christians," the author explains, are those who carry "their own […]
"Christian Faith and Modern Democracy: God and Politics in the Fallen World" by Robert Kraynak
In this provocative and engaging work, based on his lectures at Loyola of Chicago, Robert Kraynak challenges the "end of history" thesis famously articulated by Francis Fukuyama-that is, the idea that liberal democracy in the West finally and permanently resolves the thorny and ancient question, Who should rule? Arguing from within the Augustinian framework of […]